12th January - David Dunn (Oldham Athletic, sacked) League One
13th January - John Sheridan (Newport County, moves to Oldham Athletic) League Two
14th January - Steve Cotterill (Bristol City, sacked) Championship
18th January - Mark Robins (Scunthorpe United, sacked) League One
18th January - Ian Hendon (Leyton Orient, sacked) League Two

*Shudder* Pardon the link, and mildly NSFW pictures therein, but this is the source with the most detail; three Leicester City reserve players have been rumbled filming some kind of lads holiday/sexual misdemeanor in Thailand which includes racially abusing the Thai women involved.

One of the players involved is James Pearson, son of manager Nigel, and lest we forget Leicester City are owned by Thais. What a complete and utter lack of respect and what horrible, entitled these players are. I hope they're sacked. The Beeb has a tamer write up if you don't want to click on the Fail.

There are now five Dutch managers in the top 92. Lest we forget that Edgar Davids and Dick Advocaat have been managers in England rather recently; an invasion has begun.

Dijkhuizen has taken over the Brentford job. Brentford, who let Mark Warburton go despite him guiding them to the play-offs in their first season in the Championship, are supposedly looking to use 'statistics' much more often in recruiting players. I'm very interested as to how they will do.

I'm really entrigued as to how Brentford do as well but I can't see them doing so good this season unless they somehow manage to convince Spurs to get Alex Pritchard again, who is hot property at Spurs atm and could well be this season's breakout star after Kane and Mason last year.

Any predictions will have to wait until transfer season is nearing the end and we've an idea on what the teams are shaping up to be like.

At the moment, the usual Chelsea-City Top 2 prediction, United need a top class defender and a striker or two as backup to Rooney to be challengers should De Gea leave.

Arsenal could be challengers though I reckon they need a CDM and maybe a striker.

Spurs need to get rid of a lot of deadwood, another defender (already signed Wimmer from FC Koln) and some strikers as backup to Kane.

Liverpool probably need an overhaul. Skrtel is still their best defender by a long way and Sakho, Toure and Lovren have been sub-standard. Up front Borini and Lambert haven't produced anything and Ballotelli doesn't look like his old self, although that may be due to a lack of crossing from Liverpool.

If Southampton are to remain fighting for Europe they would do well to hold on to their key players and maybe need slight improvements in their squad debth, not that much though.

Some key players that will be free this summer include Khedira, Ings, Konoplyanka and Andre Ayew.

So big breaking news a little earlier with Sepp Blatter to resign as FIFA president once a successor is named, very good news for Football as a whole I'm sure you agree and I hope there will be big changes there now, Prince Ali and David Ginola have thrown their hat in to the presidential ring, successor to be named as soon as possible...

Anyone hear about Newcastle and how they released their players last week? apparently what happened was the club rang up Ryan Taylor to say he wasn't going to get a new contract and they then asked if Jonas Gutierrez was with him and it was sheer coincidence that he was and he past to the phone to Jonas and told him he wouldn't get a new deal too...

....two problems with this, firstly doing it by phone is cowardly, at least have the balls to do it face to face, secondly, releasing Jonas Gutierrez after everything he's been through is shocking, he was diagnosed with cancer last September, got the all clear in March, forced his way back into the first team, and then scored the winning goal in the last game v Villa to keep them up....I think releasing him and the way in which they did it really does say a lot about what's going on at Newcastle right now...

Good manager but I don't rate him as a coach, trying to figure out whether this is a good move or not...

...This summer will be a bit light on Football but there is the Copa America, The Euro U21 Championship and the Women's World Cup, I'll start threads on the Copa America and the Euros....not about the Women's World Cup though..

James Milner set to join Liverpool on a free from Man City once his contract runs out on July 1st subject to a medical, I cant honestly believe City are letting him go like this, he was one of the best players last season and is a really good player..

Sterling wants to go from Liverpool to Manchester United because of van Gaal.

Apparently that road hasn't been travelled since 1938.

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Sterling is a bang average player, only somewhat better than his peers. Being in a bad Liverpool side makes him look greater than he is. Sturridge, on the other hand, is a real talent; it's just a shame his legs are made from glass.

The Football League is also looking to bring in interview quotas; at least one B/EM candidate will have to be interviewed for jobs.

A lot of rumours and speculation to do with transfers at this time as ever, here's what I want/think should happen at one of my clubs, Manchester United

Goalkeepers
It certainly looks like De Gea will be leaving for Real Madrid, we have been linked with a few 'keepers to replace him like Lloris, Begovic, Cillesen and Muslera, I'd quite like Lloris although I think he would cost quite a bit as Spurs spent £8 mill on him and he has improved in the years since then which would add to his value, personally I wouldn't mind Valdes getting the number one jersey when De Gea leaves, he was fantastic against Hull and we can sign someone as a back up for him.

Defenders
We have been after a right back as Van Gaal doesn't rate Rafael who hasn't played much this season and Valencia has played there for a majority of the season, Clyne and Dani Alves have been linked but I think Seamus Coleman would be a good fit, we have been heavily linked with Mats Hummels and Nico Otamendi to play in the centre, anyone of those will be great, Luke Shaw has been out a lot of his first season but I don't think we need to sign anyone as cover as Blind and Rojo can do a job there.

Midfielders
I don't think we need anymore attacking midfielder wise unless Di Maria goes and he has already said that he isn't going anywhere which I think is great as I think he was treated a bit unfairly last season (which was his first in the PL don't forget), I would rather have Di Maria than Bale in the team right now, I think we should focus on a long term replacement for Carrick who is getting on a bit now and is getting more injury prone, Gundogon or Schneiderlin would be ideal.

Strikers
Rooney isn't going anywhere and will most likely finish his career at the club and end up our highest ever goal-scorer, Van Persie could go as I think he might be past his best and I think Higuain would be a great replacement, I'd rather keep Hernandez as I've always liked him, Wilson can go out on loan, maybe to one of the promoted PL teams...Bournemouth would be perfect for him

....and the one signing we have made....
Depay is a great signing, fantastic young player and he has potential to be one of the best players in the world in the next five years.